Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 2 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 3 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 4 | It 's two thousand rose plants have all been replaced over the last six years . |
| 5 | Nearly all the leading contenders have all been eliminated over the last year or so . |
| 6 | Changes in LSW and other water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic have already been observed over the past few years . |
| 7 | Police , firemen and council workers had worked through the night to restore the scene of the atrocity , and fresh paving stones had already been placed over the gaping holes left by the blasts . |
| 8 | Finally , he threw up slides showing the improvements which had already been achieved over the last three months . |
| 9 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
| 10 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 11 | You will find that the modulation is approximately correct when the flashing can only just be seen over the steady glow . |
| 12 | Whilst the search for a high-level waste burial site had been shelved , a climax was also being reached over the vexed issue of sea dumping . |
| 13 | This will then be recorded over the following three days alongside Debussy 's La Mer and Printemps for the tenth and final volume in his highly successful Ravel/Debussy series for Chandos . |
| 14 | The remainder would then be destroyed over the following two years provided that no third country refused to comply with the ban . |
| 15 | A gravel tidy , which is no more than a fine plastic mesh , should then be laid over the coarse medium and should be neatly trimmed to fit snugly into all the corners and around the uplifts . |
| 16 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 17 | Not only have health fears recently been raised over the insulating compound sulphur hexafluoride ( Chem . |
| 18 | erm They have had periods when they were prosecuted , then they dropped out of fashion , now they have recently been revived over the last twenty years by prosecutors . |
| 19 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |
| 20 | The refund may therefore be spread over the remaining expected service lives of current employees who are members and set against the regular cost for those years . |
| 21 | But established towns too were advancing over the surrounding fields . |